Tunable Exceptional Points for Quantum Sensing in a Spin--Orbit-Angular-Momentum Coupled BEC

Abstract:Exceptional points (EPs) can induce strongly amplified responses to weak perturbations, but enhanced spectral sensitivity in conventional non-Hermitian systems does not necessarily translate into improved quantum-limited sensing because of the associated gain and loss noise. Here, we investigate a tunable EP sensing platform based on the intrinsic non-Hermitian Bogoliubov dynamics of a spin-orbit-angular-momentum-coupled Bose-Einstein condensate. Starting from a fully Hermitian microscopic Hamiltonian, we derive a Bogoliubov dynamical matrix that exhibits parity-time (PT) symmetry, with EPs tunable through the Raman coupling and interaction parameters. We identify multiple EPs and map their trajectories and associated stability landscapes, revealing strong quantum Fisher information enhancement when the EPs are approached from the PT-symmetric stable regime. We further find that the gap-opening rate around a second-order EP provides a useful relative indicator for comparing the sensing performance of EPs, while higher-order EPs are not necessarily accessible from the stable regime. Moreover, two second-order EPs can be tuned to overlap, allowing their sensing contributions to add and yielding a linear enhancement of the total quantum Fisher information. Finally, we show that a spin-density measurement can approach the quantum Fisher information limit, providing an experimentally accessible route to tunable EP-enhanced quantum sensing in Bose-Einstein condensates.

arXiv:2608.31095 [quant-ph]

(or arXiv:2608.31095v1 [quant-ph] for this version)

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